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Author Fishbane, Eitan P., 1975-

Title As light before dawn : the inner world of a medieval kabbalist / Eitan P. Fishbane
Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 322 pages)
Series Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
Contents pt. 1. Context. Perspectives and new directions : reflections on the state of scholarship -- The wandering kabbalist : historical profile and context. pt. 2. Reception and transmission. Receiving tradition, constructing authority -- Intentions and the recovery of meaning -- Seeing the secret : creative process and the hermeneutics of insight. pt. 3. Contemplative practice, mystical experience. Contemplation, theurgical action, and the presence of God -- Techniques of mystical contemplation : kavvanah and devotional experience -- Asceticism, prophecy, and mystical union
Summary This book explores a prominent medieval kabbalist's approach to prayer, meditative contemplation, and the transmission of mystical wisdom
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-301) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Isaac ben Samuel, of Acre.
SUBJECT Isaac ben Samuel, of Acre fast
Kabbala gnd
Subject Cabala -- History -- To 1500
Mysticism -- Judaism -- History -- To 1500
RELIGION -- Judaism -- Kabbalah & Mysticism.
Cabala
Mysticism -- Judaism
Kabbala
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780804774871
0804774870
0804759138
9780804759137